Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“California, here we come, right back where we started from…”

Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall

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I picked the lyric above from Phantom Planet’s “California” (The O.C.’s theme song) because it nails how I feel about reconnecting with The O.C., a show that holds a curiously large place in my heart. I’ve visited the show at various life stages, from being a teenage college student all the way through being a grown family man with kids of my own. Life changes, but my love for The O.C. stays the same. Why? What keeps me coming back? I picked up Alan Sepinwall’s […]

The Revolution Was Documented

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Sometimes I read a non-fiction book and wonder to myself, what would this book look like if the author had waited just a few more years before analyzing the available evidence? In The Revolution Was Televised Sepinwall takes a critic’s eye to the changing landscape of television drama in the past two decades. He was absolutely in the right place to make the necessary observations and do the needed interviews with the creatives behind the shows he analyzes – Sepinwall started his career as a […]

Must Read TV

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One of the foremost pleasures of reading Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz’s exhaustive list of the greatest American TV is getting confirmation that there are people out there who watch way more TV than you. From their childhoods spent in front of television sets to their jobs as critics at the Newark Star-Ledger through to their current online prominence, Sepinwall and Seitz have as much claim as anyone to authoritatively state that they know which shows are best. TV (The Book) mainly takes the […]



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